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Genre: Simulator, Strategy, Indie

Airships: Conquer the Skies

Airships sells 100k Copies, Scheduled AMA
Seven years ago, I started working on a simple game about building airships and blowing them up again. Over time, it became definitely not simple, and I’m very proud to announce that it’s now sold 100′000 copies!

You can build airships and landships from more than a hundred modules in a free-form way. You can ram enemy ships, board them, watch them break apart, fight against sky-krakens that eat your crew. You can conquer the world in multiplayer. You can replay fights and take over at any point to change the outcome.

I designed and developed the game, made most of the graphics and sounds, did the marketing and community management. Curtis Schweitzer has created an amazing soundtrack for it, Karina S drew beautiful art, Javier Zúmer improved the sound design, and many many community members have contributed graphics, ship designs, and vast amounts of feedback.

The game is a hidden gem : 95% positive reviews on Steam, thousands of user-created ships and hundreds of mods in the workshop, but not much media coverage.

So I admit I’m also here to say: Hey! Look! We made this thing, and it’s actually really cool and pretty big now!

Come and talk to me: I’m doing an AMA on Reddit on Saturday, August 22, 20:00 CEST.

Version 1.0.18 - Guided Missiles, More Tech, More Stuff!
This version adds a lot of new modules and content!



New Modules:












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Known issues:




Swiss Games Sale
Switzerland! Mountains! Cheese! Also: Games! Here we present a delicious selection of homegrown Swiss games, from the artistic to the deeply nerdy.

Do you like machinery? We've got you covered with Farming Simulator, offering an in-depth farming experience with realistically simulated tractors. Or Transport Fever 2, covering trains, planes, trucks (no Superman, though, they didn't get the licence).

Something more fantastical? Build space drones in Nimbatus or steampunk machines in Airships: Conquer the Skies. Fight interstellar nuclear war in Stellar Commanders. Keep changing shape as you fight in Morphies' Law! Fight the darkness in Towaga: Among Shadows. Execute amazing feats of gun-play using Retimed's incredibly clever local bullet-time system.

Too violent? Take a haunting journey across a dry sea-bed in Far: Lone Sails. Observe the behaviour of crowds in KIDS. Raise a tribe of adorable creatures in Niche, and learn about genetics while you do. Defy gravity in Octahedron! Adventure through varied terrain to build a railway track together with your friends in Unrailed!

Version 1.0.17.3 Some bugfixes and improvements

Version 1.0.17.2 - Windows & Windows
There is now a fancier system for choosing the screen resolution and window size for the game.

You can now place and remove windows.

That's all for this update! More to come in the future.

Version 1.0.17.1 - Reverting Save/Sync System
In 1.0.17, I attempted to fix the long pauses for sync and autosave by making these run at the same time as game rendering. Unfortunately, this is causing the game to freeze on some user's machines, so in 1.0.17.1, I'm reverting to the old sync/autosave system. I will look for another way to reduce these pauses and make the game run more smoothly.

Version 1.0.17 - Visual Variants & Smoother Autosave


Also, there is now a multiplayer server for the Asia region.

Version 1.0.16.3 - Bugfixes and Better Research

Nimbatus - The Space Drone Constructor is out!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/383840/Nimbatus__The_Space_Drone_Constructor/



You fly around with your ship, the Nimbatus, and build drones from modules to mine into planets and fight enemies. Which is not too dissimilar to Airships, hence this shout-out. Well, that and the friendship.



One of the coolest things about it is that you can design your own input systems for the drones, so you can bind keys to any components you want. There's also sensors and logic, so you can make some sophisticated stuff.

It's been in early access for a while, and is now launching into fullness, with a 25% sale. Check it out!

Version 1.0.16
Robotic sky-squid deployed by the mad scientist. If you defeat her, you can also build them yourself.



You can now view and select the tech available in the ship editor using the Tech Filter available from the top bar.



There is now a research queue. Click on any tech to automatically queue up the research needed for it, or right-click on techs to add them to the queue.




















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